How To Install gauche-c-wrapper on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gauche-c-wrapper on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gauche-c-wrapper
gauche-c-wrapper is:
c-wrapper is a foreign function interface for C and Objective-C libraries. It can parse C header files, so you don’t need to define functions, global variables and constants to use libraries.
There are three methods to install gauche-c-wrapper on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gauche-c-wrapper Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gauche-c-wrapper using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gauche-c-wrapper
Install gauche-c-wrapper Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gauche-c-wrapper using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gauche-c-wrapper
Install gauche-c-wrapper Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gauche-c-wrapper using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gauche-c-wrapper
How To Uninstall gauche-c-wrapper on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gauche-c-wrapper package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gauche-c-wrapper
Uninstall gauche-c-wrapper And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gauche-c-wrapper and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gauche-c-wrapper
Remove gauche-c-wrapper Configurations and Data
To remove gauche-c-wrapper configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gauche-c-wrapper
Remove gauche-c-wrapper configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gauche-c-wrapper configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gauche-c-wrapper
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gauche-c-wrapper package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
